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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
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"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
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"If you sense there must be more, there is more."
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"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
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"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history."
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"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes."
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"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
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"So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
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"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"
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